Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES . BBC Wales
S.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN SMITH
Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; Thought for the Day at 7.45*
The studio guests join Esther Rantzen. Kenneth Robinson. Benny Green and who knows who else for 50 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Esther Rantzen 's new series The Big Time: Thursday 9.25 pm BBC1)
A talk by DAVID JACOBS
' Why do some birds hop while others walk? ' ' What does a spider do with his web when he climbs back up it?' Do frogs always return to their birth ponds to spawn? '
The team answers another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer JOHN HARRISON. Series producer DILYS BREESE. BBC Bristol
nem, p 39; 0 God of earth and altar IBBC HB 394); Psalm 130; Isaiah 2, vv 1-5 (RSV); Behold, the mountain (BBC HE 485)
My Parents are Busy by ROSEMARY ELLIOTT
Read by Nerys Hughes
' Maybe your parents would like to see me during the day or on another evening. I don't think we've seen very much of them.'
' They're busy.'
'So you say dear, but they can't be busy all the time.' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Sue Cook including the World of Work With MARGARET KORVING Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is baritone Norman Bailey. Show more
The opera singer Norman Bailey with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.8-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Handmade for Christmas (1): Have fun and save money - make your own soft toys.
The Mate Menopause: Fact or Fiction? - MIKE SHEILS talks with experts and sufferers, YSANNE CHURCHMAN reads A Touch of Mistletoe by BARBARA COMYNS (11) Editor wyn KNOWLES
Story: Auntie Bel's Lovely Story by JILL ROWE
by Bill Lyons
Black as He's Painted by NGAIO MARSH
6: Afternoon in the Capricorns Read by DAVID MAHLOWE
Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon. Tim Rlee
Tune twisters from STEVE RACE In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
Ian Wallace presents a menagerie of animals who have infiltrated the world of entertainment.
Including the voices of DONALD DUCK, PERCY EDWARDS PEGGY LEE. DUDLEY MOORE and GROUCHO MARX
Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
by David Pownall
Harry: They're offering me a lot of money, just for the right to prospect the area for three months. A lot of money.
Jane: We don't need the money. Not that money.
Harry: We could extend the house, build the two new bedrooms, your studio ... remember? You want to paint again, don't you?
Jane: There'll be nothing left to paint if you let an oil company into this valley. They'll ruin it.
(BBC Manchester)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
And So - Victoria by VAUGHAN WILKINS
Book 2: The Reckoning
Read by GARY WATSON (11)
preceded by Weather
